News stories covering international, U.S., science, financial, entertainment & sports events from 1976. Includes basic U.S., world & economic statistics and links to detailed statistical data
1976... Air France and British Airways begin the first regularly scheduled commercial supersonic transport (SST) flights. Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation. #FamousFirstsinAviation Viking I lands on Mars. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs. #VikingI The US Navy tests the Tomahawk cruise missile. #TomahawkCruiseMissle Richard Leakey discovers a 1.5 million year old Homo erectus skull in Kenya. Background: human evolution. #HomoErectus Cosmic string theory first postulated by Thomas Kibble. Background: Astronomy. #StringTheory Nobel Prizes in Science #NobelPrize Chemistry: William N. Lipscomb, Jr. (US), for work on the structure and bonding mechanisms of boranes. #Boranes Physics: Burton Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting (both US), for discovery of subatomic particles known as J and psi. #JandPSI Physiology or Medicine: Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek (both US), for discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. #InfectiousDiseases